Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate is the story of an African boy, Kek, who loses his father and a brother and flees, leaving his mother to secure his safety. Kek, now in Minnesota, is faced with difficulties of adapting to a new life and of finding his lost mother. He believes that his mother still lives and would soon join him in the new found family. Kek is taken from the airport by a caregiver who takes him to live with his aunt. It is here that Kek meets all that amazed him compared to his home in Sudan, Africa. Home of the brave shows conflicts that Kek faces. He is caught between two worlds, Africa and America. He feels guilty leaving behind his people to live in a distant land especially his mother, who he left in the midst of an attack. It is evident from the book that only Kek and his mother managed to survive the strategy, a mother whom he misses so much. Kek is now in his new environment in America, where he experiences snow for the first time in his life and feels its sting. It becomes hard for him to adjust as the snow’s brightness is burns his eyes, and the cold is likened to claws in his skin. As life begins tougher, he opt to help his aunt by washing dishes, yet no one ever told him that the washing machine was only meant for cleaning clothes (Applegate, 18). There are many conflicts in his mind, considering the differences he notices between Africa and America. Seeing the snow, Kek wonders if the people in this new setting will be as unkind and cold as the winter itself. Further, his desire to be like one of the Americans continues, when he meets an old woman by the name Lou, who lives on a neglected farm, and she owns a cow. The image of a cow becomes very important to Kek, as it gives him an African i... ... middle of paper ... ...and has hope that a day will come when she will join him in America. In the long run, Kek and his two friends; Lou and Gol help him adjust to his new American life as well as the joy and pain that he will go through along the way (Applegate, 42). Towards the end, his mother comes to Minnesota and they make it a new home. In Conclusion, the book Home of the Brave reflects Kek’s simple way of learning and adapting to a new language, culture, and experiences. From the content above, it is proven that Kek is lost between his identities and wants to be American in the same time. This is a very sensitive narration that covers most of the issues faced by new migrants from developing countries; from misinterpretation of appliances, to the hardships to learn English, and finally, racism. Works Cited Applegate, Katherine. Home of the Brave. Macmillan, 2007.
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“Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand is a capturing, inspiring, and unforgettable tale. Hillenbrand excels in narrative storytelling, expressing feelings and experiences that are difficult to capture in this style of writing. In this book, Hillenbrand provides a balance between facts and the story itself; she portrays the story by stopping at intervals and going more into depth about different facts that will help the reader to understand. The combination of the two create a story that’s both informative and emotionally capturing. Hillenbrand seizes the readers emotions through the use of morals and themes.
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Out of the prison, they run and keep running until they find Kristina Polanska, a 17-year-old girl who was running from a vile foreman who controlled the farm she worked at. With her, the group crosses the Trans-Siberian railway into Mongolia after coming across a hospitable man. Helped by kind Mongols, they make their way into the Gobi Desert, unprepared and unknowing of its challenges. Kristina, due to a mix of heatstroke, exhaustion, dehydration, and hunger, begins to weaken, falling down on her swollen legs. Not long after, she dies and is buried. Sigmund Makowski, the 37-year-old ex-Polish captain, shows the same symptoms of swollen legs and uncontrollable collapsing and repeats the process. When they believe all hope is lost, they find mud, harboring snakes. After drinking the water from the mud, and eating cooked snake meat, they again think that it is possible to survive the Gobi. Finding dogs ands sheep, they know an owner is near. With the old owner, they eat, and set off. Now, they enter friendly
“This is Our World” by Dorothy Allison is an essay that brings her own personal views to art and the impact that it has had on her life. She brings descriptive language to describe how the art can be compared to writing. The author persuades her audience that writing is more than just writing and it can be an eloquent and beautiful piece of art.
Kate Balland is a sixth grade student at Martha Brown Middle School. She is a dedicated and committed author of Stepsister Twisted. She had a lot of fun writing this story thanks to her wonderful English teacher, Mrs. Smith. For example, Kate enjoyed adding the dialogue to give the characters some real life and meaning. She thinks that it gives them a real meaning to their role that they play in the story.
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For the characters in the story, they struggle to feel part of American culture. Ashima worries about how her child will grow up in a foreign land with a mother who barely knows anything about it. For Gogol, he has grown up with the culture, but due to his heritage, he is not completely seen as an American. These struggles the characters face perfectly reflect how other humans like them have to deal with these situations. By detailing their struggles in a work of literature, the reader can better understand the emotions and hardships people with the same conditions must
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